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RS WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923 ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM The Old, Delightful, Fantastic Wells Reviewed by Ted Robinson Literary Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer "MEN LIKE GODS" By H. G. Wells Let us announce at the start that Mr. H. G. Wells has for the moment gone back to his most delightful fantastic playground and has again written for us an impossible romance in the manner of 'The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine." He has taken a vacation from preach- ing and from reforming society and has contented himself with prophecy- ing. It is true that his purpose in "Men Like Gods" is to show what the world might be like if its in- habitants would forget their selfish- ness and work together for common progress. It is true also that he can- not refrain from theorizing. But in this book he manages to make his story fascinating, to keep its action going, to paint pictures, to respect the artistic qualities of his own fairy tale. ; The story is of a likeable and in- telligent Englishman who goes alone upon a motor trip to take a needed vacation from his business and his family. Driving along a familiar road he feels a slight shock and sud- denly he is no longer on that familiar road. Two or three other motoring parties that happened to be in the vicinity have experienced the same translation, for they are all in an- other world. It is impossible for us or for Mr. Wells either to explain exactly how it has taken place; it suffices that inhabitants of a fourth dimensional planet which intersects our earth have been indulging in ex- periments which have had the ac- cidental effect of moving this party of travelers into a Utopian sphere. The Utopians are the men like gods. They are ten thousand years ahead of earth dwellers in civilization and scientific progress. They build no cities, they wear no clothes, their surroundings are beautiful and ideal. It is of course prophecied that this is the way our earth is going to be if we act sanely. It is a typical Wells prediction. But the story continues to grow in interest. With the excep- tion of the hero the earth dwellers are not able to adjust themselves to ideal conditions. They act outrageously and they get into serious treuble. In- cidentally they: start an epidemic among the Utopians because these latter have so long ago abolished disease germs that they have also lost their immunity to germs. This in- cident is of course reminiscent of "The War of the Worlds." Our hero DRESSES and Sport Apparel REDUCED PRICES for July and August Grace Forbes Shop Room 217 Hoyburn Building EVANSTON Phone Evanston 7647 is willing to stay in Utopia for the rest of his life but this does not ac- cord with the plans of the Utopians. I'hey reverse their experiment and send him back to England. He re- turns to his wife a wiser and even healthier man, and we have had an- other bully fairy tale by Wells at last. A BIT DULL "THE. DEBUTANTE" Bv Hugh McClosky "Intimate glimpses into the heart of a young girl," reads the pub- lisher's jacket. Quite so--but on the whole very dull glimpses. "I, Peggy Swann," philosophizes, diar-izes, psycho-analyzes, through two hundred odd pages of platitudes about the war, platitudes about peace, platitudes about government, and numerous platitudinous love affairs with emo- tional peaks over which one cannot emote. The most that can be said is that it is perfectly respectable. For the sake of the plot, "I, Peggy," marries in the last chapter. J. B. Buell. Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward. "THE SEA HAWK" Bv Rafael Sabatini Of a hero grim and stout of limb-- Sir Oliver, six feet three; How his good luck turned and his love was spurned Because of the deviltry Of trusted Lal, half-brother, pal-- That master of villainy! Of how he was sold and thrown in a hold Of a ship on the Spanish main; How he rode the wave as a galley slave To the clank of a heavy chain; Then drew his blade as a renegade And scuttled the ships of Spain. If you're donning your specs to look for sex . Then here's a book to avoid. This author's pen has painted men Who, when aroused or annoyed, Went out and slew the whole day through With never a thought of Freud. Reuben Peterson, Jr. Kenilworth Happenings Mr. and Mrs. Irving B. Babcock, 229 Essex road, and Mrs. Babcock's sister, Mrs. Warren Hillin, of Buffalo, who has been their guest for the past week, and Mrs. Babcock's brother, D. C. 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